{"id":15092155,"date":"2026-03-31T16:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-only-thing-red-bull-can-do-to-motivate-max-verstappen-may-not-be-enough\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:34:23","slug":"the-only-thing-red-bull-can-do-to-motivate-max-verstappen-may-not-be-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-only-thing-red-bull-can-do-to-motivate-max-verstappen-may-not-be-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"The only thing Red Bull can do to motivate Max Verstappen may not be enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set aside for now the irony of Max\u00a0Verstappen criticising the state of Formula 1 while eulogising GT3 racing \u2013 the epitome of an artificial formula where the competitors regularly bemoan the balance of performance regime. His body language in recent grand prix weekends has signalled that his hints about fading motivation are real.<br \/>\u201cEvery day I wake up, I convince myself again. And I &#8230;<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/the-only-thing-red-bull-can-do-to-motivate-max-verstappen-may-not-be-enough\/10810090\/?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&amp;utm_term=News&amp;utm_content=www\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/the-only-thing-red-bull-can-do-to-motivate-max-verstappen-may-not-be-enough\/10810090\/?utm_source=RSS&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&#038;utm_term=News&#038;utm_content=www\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Motorsport.com &#8211; All &#8211; Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set aside for now the irony of Max\u00a0Verstappen criticising the state of Formula 1 while eulogising GT3 racing \u2013 the epitome of an artificial formula where the competitors regularly bemoan the balance of performance regime. His body language in recent grand prix weekends has signalled that his hints about fading motivation are real.<br \/>\u201cEvery day I wake up, I convince myself again. And I &#8230;<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/the-only-thing-red-bull-can-do-to-motivate-max-verstappen-may-not-be-enough\/10810090\/?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&amp;utm_term=News&amp;utm_content=www\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15092157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15092155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autos"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",1200,798,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing-620x412.jpg",620,412,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing-940x625.jpg",940,625,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",1200,798,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",1200,798,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",1200,798,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",24,16,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",48,32,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",96,64,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",150,100,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092155-max-verstappen-red-bull-racing.jpg",300,200,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/autos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Autos<\/a>","tag_info":"Autos","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15092155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15092156,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092155\/revisions\/15092156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15092157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15092155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15092155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15092155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}